Charles Eames Movies

An early attempt to present communications theory, made to encourage the breaking down of barriers of thinking between disciplines and to discourage...

The concept of a mathematical function is illustrated as used in science.

Created with imagery taken from the 19th-Century Japanese woodcuts on display in the Smithsonian Institution’s exhibition “The Japanese...

Charles and Ray produced this film for IBM’s pavilion at the 1958 Brussels World’s Fair. The Information Machine was the first...

The short film uses a variety of familiar examples that have the feedback principle in common to present a broad view of the phenomena present in...

Symmetry is one of five shorts featured in the film "Mathematical Peep Shows." The collection was made by Charles and Ray Eames for the IBM...

A visually elegant study of water on a schoolyard playground.

The film sets forth the objectives of the planned Center, describes its architectural program, and gives a guided tour through a model of the...

An interesting look at the world of toy trains, shot from the perspective of the little world itself. Originally created for model train enthusiasts,...

A promotional film for the Eames designed Polaroid Sx-70 camera.

"Based on the exhibition "Photography and the city", designed by the Eames Office for the Smithsonian Institute". A primer on the modern problems of...

In 1957, Charles and Ray designed the Solar Do-Nothing Machine for Alcoa, the Aluminum Company of America. True to the Eameses’ belief that...

Various kinds of tops are shown spinning.

A rare, live-action, and close-up study of the only existing Babbage Difference Engine, a machine designed in the first quarter of the 19th-Century...

This film traces the design development of the Eames Sofa Compact, which folds for easy flat-pack shipping. The film, one of the first Charles and...

The lives of Franklin and Jefferson are used as prisms through which to evoke colonial America. With a dynamic timeline and a wealth of images drawn...

The Eames design philosophy presented in the form of a series of questions posed by a curator at the Louvre and answered by Charles Eames.

A morality film where Sherlock Holmes solves a case using Boolean logic.

This film was made by the Eamses on a weeks notice for a local Los Angeles TV show where jazz musicians improvised to the images live. The music that...

A parable, photographed in live-action, about the use of eating utensils in India. Doubling as a social commentary, this film also examines the...